Showing posts with label catwalk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catwalk. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 May 2009

North West's What To Wear



Rapidly approaching on June 12th and is being held at Lush in Portrush, tickets are available from the usual outlets and retailers in the Coleraine area. As well the catwalk (yup I'll be up a step ladder again) I did the poster shots (the ones for Dumb Blonde Productions).

The wind, the rain, the Portrush weather just tried to kick our backsides but we were having non of it. Ultimate cheers to Ashling who just didn't let the weather phase her at all and just got on with, every ten shots or so I'd call for the blanket.

Though you can't really see it those clouds are coming in fast and they looking pretty dark. I just called out "last two shots" and as I pressed the shutter for the last shot a single drop of rain hit my eyelid, game over.

I can't wait to see the posters though, always perks the spirit to see your own stuff being used.

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Lush & Dumb Blondes.

Ooooh you could read that wrong couldn't you? Dumb Blonde Productions is a new fresh faced and enthused client. So we all got together at Lush nightclub in Portrush to talk catwalk and promo materials. Now I personally think I'm a bit beyond the nightclub sort of things, I don't do loud noises very well any more (unless I'm making them via guitars).

Sunday afternoon, now you can imagine what a nightclub will be like the day after the night before.

Shooting wise I enjoyed myself, even though it wasn't a proper shoot just testing out locations, backgrounds and different ideas. It's a lovely building with different bars, locations and backgrounds and I could have walked around for a lot longer but a few of the rooms were locked. Ah well.


These gold cylinder like padded pillars were my favourite as they give a sense of shape. Georgina is the client but she didn't mind being the model for the hour while I tested a load of stuff out.

The problem with nightclubs, light, not the lack of but the amount of. Ontop of this is the varying types of light which kick around all sorts of colour casts. How do you control all that, well you just hang on for dear life and get on with it. During the evening I managed to put the question to Joe McNally who graciously gave me a few minutes of his time while sat in the airport. If anyone knows anything about light it's Joe...

To compensate I rigged up the new popular fashion light, two gangs of two 5ft flurescent tubes, couldn't get 5000K daylight balanced only 3500K ones but fine balancing the white balance is something I enjoy.

I'm really looking forward to the proper shoot now, and it's great to welcome Dumb Blonde Productions as a new client.